ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mouth. The digestive process starts in your mouth when you chew. Your salivary glands make saliva, a digestive juice, which moistens food so it moves more easily through your esophagus into your stomach. Saliva also has an enzyme that begins to break down starches in your food.

Detailed explanation-2: -Saliva (you might call it spit) works with the teeth and helps make food soft and easy to swallow. It also has chemicals in it that start breaking down the food. The tongue helps to move the food around, and when you’re ready, it pushes the food down the back of the mouth to the esophagus.

Detailed explanation-3: -Saliva contains special enzymes that help digest the starches in your food. An enzyme called amylase breaks down starches (complex carbohydrates) into sugars, which your body can more easily absorb. Saliva also contains an enzyme called lingual lipase, which breaks down fats.

Detailed explanation-4: -The GI tract is a series of hollow organs that are connected to each other from your mouth to your anus. The organs that make up your GI tract, in the order that they are connected, include your mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and anus.

Detailed explanation-5: -This is the beginning of a tract called the digestive system, which contains your teeth, your throat, your stomach, your intestines, and other parts of your body. They work together to digest your food.